Transcript CBP Decision Framework in Action Jeff Horan, Habitat GIT Chair February 16, 2012

CBP Decision Framework
in Action
Jeff Horan, Habitat GIT Chair
February 16, 2012
Goal Implementation Team Chairs
Meeting
•Meeting Purpose: To agree on the most effective
way for the GIT’s to operate and provide leadership
within the Bay Program Partnership
•The GIT chairs agree with the Executive Council (EC)
and the Federal Leadership Committee (FLC) that the
GITs should play a major role in strengthening the
partnership by providing a forum for coordination,
collaboration and for leveraging resources form all
partners
Goal Implementation Team Chairs
Meeting
•Bringing Issues to the MB, PSC and FOD:
•Use the seven steps in the Decision Framework to
manage adaptively.
•GITs need to test and refine goals, milestones,
strategies, processes and metrics.
•GIT’s need a clear process to bring key issues to the
attention of the MB, PSC, FOD, FLC and EC.
Habitat Goal Implementation Team
•Restore a network of land and water habitats
to support priority species and to afford other
public benefits.
•Oversee workgroups covering four main focus areas:
•Wetlands
•Fish Passage
•Stream Health
•Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)
Wetlands
• Goal: Restore 30,000 and enhance
150,000 acres of tidal and non-tidal
wetlands by 2025
• Key factors: slope and residence time,
vegetation, private ownership
• Strategies: Target areas that benefit living
resources (e.g. black ducks) and water
quality
• Performance assessment: Two year
milestones (4,000 acres restored and
20,000 acres enhanced every two years)
Fish Passage
• Goal: Open 1,000 additional
stream miles for fish passage by
2025
• Key factors: Downstream
barriers, target species,
hydrodynamic conditions
• Strategies: Target priority
projects using a collaborative
federal and state prioritization
process
• Performance assessment: Two
year milestones (132 miles of
stream opened every two years)
Stream Health
• Goal: Coordinate expert input on
restoration techniques, funding
options, and priority targets for
natural channel design
• Key Factors: Geomorphology,
biodiversity, temperature
• Strategies: Implement Stream
Functional Framework that
identifies critical stream functions
to be assessed for stream
restoration
• Performance assessment: Followup monitoring
BEFORE
AFTER
SITE SELECTION
REACH SCALE
IMPROVEMENTS
INDEPENDENT
VARIABLES
Brook Trout
• Goal: Restore brook trout populations
by improving 58 sub-watersheds from
‘reduced’ to ‘healthy’
• Key Factors: Temperature, non-native
species, stream fragmentation
• Strategies: Work with EBTJV to identify
priority restoration areas
• Performance assessment: Two year
milestone (improve 10 sub-watersheds
every two years)
*GIT and EBTJV working to revise goal
and milestone to reflect latest
catchment-level data
• Proposed metric based
upon brook trout
occupancy of contiguous
catchments (patches)
• Catchment level goals and
data will provide more
meaningful information to
natural resource managers
SAV
• Goal: Reach 185,000 acres, linked to a
restored Bay
• Key factors: water clarity,
temperature, disruption of existing
beds
• Strategies: improve water quality
through BMPs watershed wide
• Performance assessment: annual
aerial surveys (progress toward goal)
and water quality monitoring (to
explain observed patterns with SAV)
SAV
• Goal: Plant or seed 20 acres of SAV each year.
• Successful plantings persist over time and have attributes of
natural SAV beds (sustainability, plant density, improvement to
water quality, reproduction and dispersal of propagules, wave
attenuation)
• Key factors: Water clarity, temperature, physical environment,
technical understanding of restoration success (habitat
suitability, recruitment)
• Strategies: Small scale plantings aimed at increasing
understanding of site selection, recruitment, and habitat
suitability
• Performance assessment: Follow-up monitoring (both field and
remote sensing) to assess success of plantings.